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DEVELOPING
COMMUNITIES
ASSOCIATION
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THE PARCS TVET PROJECT
The "Project to help strengthen social cohesion in strategic cross-border areas (PARCS)" is a project being implemented by GDCA in cooperation with its French partners, Acting for Life. It is a 3-year project starting from 1 December 2022 to 30 November 2025. Under the project GDCA will provide TVET training to 240 young people 18 - 35 in skills in construction and agriculture. In construction training modules are: Electrical installations (Domestic), Plumbing, Tiling, and Plaster paneling. Agriculture training modules are: Beekeeping, Organic vegetable production, Organic poultry production, and Agro-processing.
Project background
In all the cross-border areas targeted by the project, social cohesion has been weakened by the lack of opportunities for young people and by the degradation of relationships between crop and livestock farmers. By offering training that is tailored to local needs, the Project will improve prospects for young people. By providing training tools and tools for sharing information on local issues (positive economic benefits of the livestock-meat sector, understanding how mobility works, tools for monitoring the integration of young people), the Project will help improve people’s understanding of and control over local issues and solidify a community of interests that goes beyond smaller identity groups or age groups. Lastly, the Project will help strengthen social cohesion and promote economic development in these strategic cross-border areas by making sure that often-excluded social groups (livestock farmers, young people) are included in decision-making forums, and ensuring an institutional base at the level of local authorities and joint local authority groups.
Overall and specific objectives
A. Overall objective of the project/programme
The overall objective of the Project is to strengthen social cohesion in strategic cross-border areas.
The indicator will be a decline in tensions between communities in the municipalities targeted by the Project. This indicator will be tracked and measured using gendarmerie/police records and information relayed through monitoring, analysis and alert systems. All relevant data will be collected using the conflict-indicator tool requested by ECOWAS.
B. Specific objective
The specific objective of PARCS is to promote inclusive socio-economic development in each of the territories.
The indicator used for the specific objective is improvement in socio-economic conditions and participation of at least 80% of the individuals and households targeted by the Project in decision-making. Just like in previous projects, particularly TVET projects, improvement in socio-economic conditions will be measured using tools for monitoring the integration of young people who have received professional training. As for participation in decision-making, focus groups will be organised for participants in decision-making forums in order to evaluate and measure the participation of the project beneficiaries (individuals and households).
C. Internal coherence of the project
By offering training that is tailored to local needs, the Project will improve prospects for young people through the creation of professional training programmes in promising trades in the areas targeted by the Project. Those young people will be accompanied all along their path towards integration. The forums for dialogue – TVET committee meetings – will make it possible to combine the different project activities with other actions in the areas targeted by the Project. Data collected through youth monitoring will be analysed and shared in forums for dialogue, in order to advocate for the key role young people play in local development. By providing training tools and tools for sharing information on local issues (positive economic benefits of the livestock-meat sector, understanding how mobility works, tools for monitoring the integration of young people), the Project will help improve people’s understanding of and control over local issues and solidify a community of interests that goes beyond smaller identity groups or age groups. Lastly, the Project will help strengthen social cohesion and promote economic development in these strategic cross-border areas by making sure that often-excluded social groups (livestock farmers, young people) are included in decision-making forums, and ensuring an institutional base at the level of local authorities and joint local authority groups.